What sources do you use to get this statistical data that is not trying to sell anyone anything :).

I wish we could see statistics on how many of rhe people lost their shirts trying to rent other peoples houses.

It would be interesting to see the statistics on that.Build up that asset column!

The Entrust Group has gathered exclusive data, analytics, and trends based on Entrust databases and national statistics from the National Association of Realtors and Zillow Research. 

In his semi-monthly newsletter, he’s identified a few areas of the country as bubbly, but there is one that has become ridiculously over-priced: San Francisco.I won’t spoil the details in his “Campbell Real Estate Timing Letter”, but I’ll pull out one public statistic from the Case-Shiller Index, and expand deeper on it.

Thank you for your advise & statistic.

I come from a statistics background, so I throw out outliers that are very high or very low that might corrupt the data, and get a minimum of 4 comps.

The U.S Census predicts by 2050 whites will not be the predominate race.Mexican,Latino etc. are predicted to be.The reason is Whites on average have 2 children or less.The Mexican,Latino community have very large families with 4 to 6 children on average per couple.It's simply math that over time they will overtake the White class by numbers.Asians will grow by a large number as well.These are actual statistics so please don't start any race or political stuff people.I think different races live differently so tenant mix will have an impact with investing moving forward.

Which is essentially true based on long term statistics.

BTW, the IRS and government can assess the value of an option through market and statistical analysis which is beyond the scope or reasonable means of a small investor, large corporations do it everyday and in financing options.